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Vision’s Information Availability Solutions by Industry

Perishable Goods and Grocery

From packaged goods to produce and dairy, today’s grocery-bound goods producers need the speed and accessibility of always-available information and applications. Supply chains, distribution networks and retailer customers depend on them. Meanwhile, a host of planning and analytics companies, who serve your businesses, must tap into up-to-the minute pricing and point of sale information for the latest analytics and planograms to meet daily consumer demand.

As always, cutting costs and doing more with less continue to drive the business and the bottom line. But what if you could immediately tap into the unused value that exists within your IT infrastructure? Turn nonproductive downtime—whether planned or unplanned—into higher productivity, increased customer service and more accurate, timely information? Use the resources below to learn how the power of a Vision Solutions information availability product can deliver new value for your organization.

"iTERA HA clearly paid for itself within a short time of doing tape saves over the replicated backup environment."

George Despinoudis
Technical Support Manager
Berri Ltd.
 

RESOURCES

Explore the Vision Solutions Product Family
White Paper: "The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity"
White Paper: “Breakthrough Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments”
White Paper: "The 5 Truths of High Availability"
White Paper: "Evaluating Availability Choices"
White Paper: "What Every Senior Executive Should Know - Recovering Business Value from Unprofitable Downtime"

SUCCESS STORIES 

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits
Category four and five hurricanes in the summer of 2005 caused management at Florida-based mega-retailer ABC Fine Wine & Spirits to examine their vulnerabilities. 154 busy retail stores in latitudes as far north as Tallahassee and as far south as Miami could be isolated without access to the company’s IBM System i 550, which is housed in the executive office complex next to its 250,000 square foot distribution center in Orlando.
  Product(s): iTERA HA
   
Nicholas & Company
As a broad-line foodservice distributor, Nicholas & Company delivers food and other products to a wide range of customers, from the smallest restaurants to national fast-food chains. Investments in technology have helped Nicholas & Company continue to meet a key customer demand in this highly competitive industry: on-time delivery.
  Product(s): iTERA HA
   
Oliver Adams Ltd.
Oliver Adams knows that when it comes to craft-baked goods, minutes matter. So protecting against any delays caused by computer system downtime is a vital ingredient to its success.
  Product(s): iTERA HA
   
Alpura
Alpura must be able to process, package and deliver its high quality dairy products to supermarkets across Mexico less than 24 hours after production, and always under the strictest quality control. Downtime, planned or unplanned, that delays this continuous supply chain, even for a few hours, is a serious matter.
  Product(s): MIMIX HA
   
Casino
Keeping huge amounts of retail goods flowing to its stores is the main task for Casino. Any downtime would have dramatic consequences for its long and complex supply chains. The sales outlets utterly depend on timely and accurate deliveries. Casino’s IT team must ensure that the company’s 17 warehouses have constant access to their data and applications to ensure that the business does not come to a sudden standstill.
  Product(s): MIMIX HA
   
Devro
Devro requires a high availability (HA) solution to provide business continuity and reduce the potential impact of system downtime on stock levels, customer delivery schedules and incoming orders.
  Product(s): MIMIX HA
   
Tony's Fine Foods
Trucks move in and out of Tony’s Fine Foods’ warehouses nearly 24 hours a day and a system outage would impact the receipt and delivery of products including perishable items. To maintain its superior customer service, Tony’s needed a way to protect against unexpected downtime and provide flexible ways to manage planned downtime.
  Product(s): MIMIX HA, EchoStream for AIX
   
Dairy Farmers
To assist in unified reporting and establish common systems across its enterprise, Dairy Farmers consolidated onto a single integrated ERP system. With no backup window, no allowance for system downtime and huge transactional volumes, Dairy Farmers needed a robust HA solution to ensure continuous business operations.
  Product(s): ORION HA
   
Delta Greece
Delta Greece needed to enable its business to operate 24/7 to ensure that perishable goods are delivered on-time to customers. Furthermore, the company needed an effective, easy-to-manage solution to keep core systems running.
  Product(s): ORION HA
   
Nutreco
Rapid growth through acquisition left Nutreco with a wide variety of business applications running on different computing platforms. To promote greater operational consistency, Nutreco elected to centralise its operations on an enterprise-wide ERP solution called Movex from Intentia. Movex runs on an IBM® eServer System i computer. With its entire global operation running on a single system, Nutreco made high availability a high priority.
  Product(s): ORION HA
   
Alpura
Alpura must be able to process, package and deliver its high quality dairy products to supermarkets across Mexico less than 24 hours after production, and always under the strictest quality control. Downtime, planned or unplanned, that delays this continuous supply chain, even for a few hours, is a serious matter.
  Product(s): Double-Take
   
PFG
With an eye on disaster recovery, PFG had implemented MIMIX HA for i5/OS to protect the mission-critical applications on the company’s production IBM System i server. Pressed for 24/7 availability and with increased growth and market opportunities, PFG saw the need to optimize uptime for all of its systems. To minimize planned and unplanned downtime for its Windows-based applications, PFG looked to Double-Take® for Windows from Vision Solutions.
  Product(s): Double-Take
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